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Heaven on Earth
Heaven on earth or a serious discourse touching a well-grounded assurance of mens everlasting happiness and blessedness. Discovering the nature of assurance, the possibility of attaining it, the causes, springs, and degrees of it, with the resolution of several weighty questions. By Thomas Brooks, preacher of the Gospel at Margarets Fishstreet-Hill.Heaven on earth or a serious discourse touching a wel-grounded assurance of mens everlasting happiness and blessedness. Discovering the nature of assurance, the possibility of attaining it, the causes, springs, and degrees of it, with the resolution of several weighty questions. By Thomas Brooks, preacher of the Gospel at Margarets Fishstreet-Hill.
London: printed by R.I. for John Hancock, 1654
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That Hope that accompanies Salvation, is a long-lived hope, it is a living hope, 1 Pet. 1. 3. Blessed be the God, and 1Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope, or a living hope: A hope that will not die, a hope that will not leave a man in life nor death, Psal. 71. 14. But I will hope 2continually, and will yet praise thee more 3and more. No trials, no troubles, no afflictions, no oppositions, shall keep down my hope, says David. I am peremptorily resolved, in the face of all dangers, difficulties, and deaths, to keep up my hopes; come what will come on it, I will rather let my life go, then my hope go, I will hope continually. A hopeless condition, is a very sad condition; it is the worst condition in the world, it makes a mans life, a very Hell. If hope deferred maketh the heart sick, (as the Wise man speaks, Prov. 13. 12.) then the loss of hope will make the soul languish; it will make it choose strangling, rather then life; it will make a mans life, a ⟨p. 543⟩continual death. A Soul without hope, is like a ship without anchors: Lord where will that soul stay, that stays not upon thee by hope? A man were better part with any thing, then his hope.
That Hope that accompanies Salvation, is a long-lived hope, it is a living hope, 1 Pet. 1. 3. Blessed be the God, and 1Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope, or a living hope: A hope that will not die, a hope that will not leave a man in life nor death,